1920 Yorkshire Cup
| Structure | Regional knockout championship | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of teams | 13 | |||
| Winners | Hull KR | |||
| Runners-up | Hull | |||
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The 1920 Yorkshire Cup was the thirteenth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. This year saw a new name on the trophy, when previously twice beaten finalists (1906 and 1911), Hull KR won the trophy at the third attempt by beating close neighbours and fierce rivals Hull by the score of 2-0 in the final. The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 20,000 and receipts were £1,926. This was the first of only three meetings between the teams which would take place in the finals in the long history of the tournament
Contents
Background
The Rugby Football League's Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from the county of Yorkshire. The actual area was at times increased to encompass other teams from outside the county such as Newcastle, Mansfield, Coventry, and even London (in the form of Acton & Willesden. The Rugby League season always (until the onset of "Summer Rugby" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in (or just before) December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused during, and immediately after, the two World Wars).
Competition and Results[1][2]
This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entants and no "leavers" and so the total of entries remained the same at thirteen. This in turn resulted in three byes in the first round.
Round 1
Involved 5 matches (with three byes) and 13 Clubs
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 16 Oct 1920 | Batley | 10-3 | York | Mount Pleasant | ||||||
| 2 | Sat 16 Oct 1920 | Halifax | 15-3 | Bramley | Thrum Hall | ||||||
| 3 | Sat 16 Oct 1920 | Huddersfield | 5-5 | Dewsbury | Fartown | ||||||
| 4 | Sat 16 Oct 1920 | Hull KR | 12-3 | Bradford Northern | Craven Street (off Holderness Road) | ||||||
| 5 | Sat 16 Oct 1920 | Leeds | 14-2 | Wakefield Trinity | Headingley | ||||||
| 6 | Hull | bye | [3] | ||||||||
| 7 | Hunslet | bye | |||||||||
| 8 | Keighley | bye |
Round 1 - Replays
Involved 1 match and 2 Clubs
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | Tue 19 Oct 1920 | Dewsbury | 7-0 | Huddersfield | Crown Flatt |
Round 2 - Quarter Finals
Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 30 Oct 1920 | Dewsbury | 3-2 | Halifax | Crown Flatt | 26584 | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Sat 30 Oct 1920 | Hunslet | 10-9 | Batley | Parkside | ||||||
| 3 | Sat 30 Oct 1920 | Keighley | 5-18 | Hull | Lawkholme Lane | [3] | |||||
| 4 | Sat 30 Oct 1920 | Leeds | 2-8 | Hull KR | Headingley |
Round 3 – Semi-Finals
Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 13 Nov 1920 | Hull | 31-5 | Hunslet | Boulevard | [3] | |||||
| 2 | Sat 13 Nov 1920 | Hull KR | 8-5 | Dewsbury | Craven Street (off Holderness Road) |
Final
| Game No | Fixture Date | Home Team | Score | Away Team | Venue | Att | Rec | Notes | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 27 November 1920 | Hull KR | 2-0 | Hull | Headingley | 20000 | £1,926 | 2 | [3][4][5] |
Teams and Scorers
| Hull KR | № | Hull |
|---|---|---|
| teams unknown | teams | teams unknown |
| 1 | ||
| 2 | ||
| 3 | ||
| 4 | ||
| 5 | ||
| 6 | ||
| 7 | ||
| 8 | ||
| 9 | ||
| 10 | ||
| 11 | ||
| 12 | ||
| 13 | ||
| ?? | Coach | Sid Melville (trainer) |
| 2 | score | 0 |
| 0 | HT | 0 |
| Scorers | ||
| Goals | ||
| G | ||
| Drop Goals | ||
| DG | ||
| Referee | unknown | |
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points
The road to success
| First Round | Second Round | Semi Finals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wakefield Trinity | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull KR | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull KR | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bradford Northern | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull KR | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Huddersfield | 5 (0) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 5 (7) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dewsbury | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Halifax | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bramley | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull KR | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | |||||||||||||||||||
| bye | |||||||||||||||||||
| Keighley | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hull | |||||||||||||||||||
| bye | |||||||||||||||||||
| Hull | 31 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | |||||||||||||||||||
| bye | |||||||||||||||||||
| Hunslet | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batley | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| York | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
Notes
1 * the attendance was a never to be bettered ground record
2 * Headingley, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds RLFC with a capacity of 21,000. The record attendance was 40,175 for a league match between Leeds and Bradford Northern on 21 May 1947.
See also
References
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